Latin American Sexualities

The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America

By notcheseditor October 2, 2014 Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ 0 comments

Bryan Pitts “We aren’t hiding anymore – it’s our rights that we’re fighting for,” exclaimed a participant at a July 2010 pro-same-sex marriage demonstration in Buenos Aires. A few weeks later the Argentine Senate voted to modify the country’s Civil Code to permit same-sex marriage. The landmark vote represented perhaps the […]

The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past

By Agnes Arnold-Forster May 29, 2014 Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ 2 comments

Agnes Arnold-Forster In 1991, the Progressive Liberal Party government amended the Bahamas’ Sexual Offences Act, decriminalising “buggery” and other same-sex sexual acts in private. Over twenty years later the Bahamas still remains ahead of the majority of its Caribbean neighbours. Male-male sexual activity continues to be illegal in eleven Caribbean nations. […]